[Morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases at the Military Hospital of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire].

Objectives: To determine the proportion of infectious diseases and their lethality at the Abidjan Military Hospital.

Patients And Methods: This cross-sectional study examined the medical files of patients hospitalized in the internal medicine unit of the hospital during 2004.

Results: The study included 668 patients with 855 diseases, 579 of them infectious (67.